Sentences with phrase «military expenditure in»

Under his policy of «low intensity conflict», designed to avoid another Vietnam-esque debacle, the US dramatically increased military expenditures in order to fund anti-government rebels in Nicaragua, Angola, Ethiopia, Cambodia, and Afghanistan (including Bin Laden).

Not exact matches

Yet when we are confronted with the need to apply the social teachings of the prophets to a particular measure before Congress in our time — for example, to expenditures for military defense, or a farm bill, or fair employment practices — the directives are less clear.

In February 1792, British Prime Minister Pitt justified the reduction of military expenditures and held out hope for more reductions to come by declaring: «Unquestionably there never was a time in the history of this country when from the situation of Europe we might more reasonably expect fifteen years of peace than at the present momenIn February 1792, British Prime Minister Pitt justified the reduction of military expenditures and held out hope for more reductions to come by declaring: «Unquestionably there never was a time in the history of this country when from the situation of Europe we might more reasonably expect fifteen years of peace than at the present momenin the history of this country when from the situation of Europe we might more reasonably expect fifteen years of peace than at the present moment.

In this era, military security became our highest priority, our greatest expenditure, and our scarcest commodity.

For instance, organizations trying to assist Haitian and Salvadoran refugees to avoid repatriation, or organizations urging boycott of banks doing business with South Africa, or organizations counseling young people not to register for the draft, or organizations protesting increased military expenditures, or organizations demonstrating against nuclear power or against mineral exploration in wilderness areas, are all in danger of losing their tax exemptions for violating «public policy.»

The same question is then applied to other matters: to U.S. support of Israel; to U.S. opposition to the election of Hamas in Palestine; to the history of U.S. involvement in Iran over the past century; to the invasion and reconstitution of Afghanistan; to the depiction of events in the Middle East by U.S. media; and to the military expenditures of the U.S. government.

Countries in Europe, in contrast, which he leaned on U.S. military protection via NATO in the early days after WWII, and which lacked the resources to participate more directly in the Cold War, normalized a lower level of military expenditure, and refrained from making nearly as great an economic commitment to fight wars in the Afghanistan and Iraq as the U.S. did as a leader of those coalitions.

The lifting of EU (and some US sanctions) in January 2016 is expected to boost the Iranian economy and may lead to a rise in military expenditure.

Military expenditure was a hot subject in 2017 when Donald Trump criticized NATO countries (other than US) for not «paying a fair share»:

But a separate bill is being proposed to make a similar pledge in defence, one that makes sure we maintain Nato's target of two per cent of GDP spent annually on military expenditure.

US clearly dominates the world when it comes to military expenditure, both in % of GDP and nominal value.

You can see that Iran expends 2.5 % of its GDP with military expenditure (just a bit more than the global average of 2.3 %), and the specific value (in 2015 US$) is US$ 10.265 billion.

According to this report by the Stockholm International Peace Research Institute, «Trends in World Military Expenditure, 2015»:

Japan does have its own military, it's number 8 in the world by military expenditure, number 18 by the number of active military personnel.

The military is well trained and better armed due to Burundi having the highest military expenditure of any country in the East African region and support from the US and Belgium; over 2.39 % of Burundi's 2012 Gross Domestic Product.

In 1893, for example, the $ 165 million spent on military pensions was the largest single expenditure ever made by the federal government.

Military expenditure percentages are currently lower in the EU than in US.

[3] Reid gained considerable praise for the review; with some commentators going so far as to describe his success in cutting military expenditure at the same time as winning over the defence chiefs as «brilliant».

According to the Stockholm International Peace Research Institute (SIPRI), worldwide military expenditures have been growing annually for the past 15 years, and between 15 and 20 major armed conflicts — yes, wars — are in progress as you read this.

Despite expanding the data collection years to 2011 and 2012, Greece and Canada still had incomplete information in the UIS database and they were the two OECD countries for which I used the Stockholm International Peace Research Institute's (SIPRI) military expenditure database to create estimates.

This version allowed me to use their current USD tab to obtain military expenditure data for all countries with education expenditures and enrollments from 2013 — which was the most current year represented in the database.

The first step in estimating education spending was to create an education spending to military spending ratio for primary and secondary grade spans in the analysis.vi To create the ratios, I looked at all the countries that had data for education spending for primary and secondary education and military expenditure figures.

Determine what additional information they will have to collect in order to meet the law's new requirements (e.g., new subgroups such as children in foster care, homeless children and children of military families; school quality and school climate data, pre-school data and school level expenditure data.

Our «Foster Home» program has a two-fold purpose which includes assisting our deploying active duty service members and veterans in specific situations with volunteer «foster homes» within our foster home network and the «Military Pet Assistance» (MPA) Fund for assisting our «Homeless Veterans» with veterinary care expenditures and temp pet boarding expenditures.

If you include the true ecological and economic costs of U.S. energy policy (including military expenditures) in the fossil fuel bill, that is even more obvious:

Fossil fuel interests are using their clout at the White House and in Congress to sabotage every renewable energy program that comes along, while make sure massive government subsidies, on the order of $ 100 billion a year when you count it all up, continue to flow to the fossil fuel industry (U.S. military expenditures are $ 500 billion a year, and good chunk of that is devoted to protecting overseas oilfields, for example).

It's time for a candidate to sack up and champion the diversion of resources from wasteful military expenditures to much needed domestic infrastructure in order to combat the true challenges of the 21st century.

The hugely transparent subsidization of renewables against the stealth subsidization of fossil fuel energy mainly the huge military and security expenditures diluted in budgets accounts.

It seems to have been wealthy Saudis... Factor in the costs of the war in Iraq and massive military expenditures to protect oil supplies and windmills look cheap at twice the price.

So, cutting US military expenditure roughly in half would mean 21.4 % of global spending would be from the US — $ 3.424 billion.

This budget aims at 5lacs clear excemption limit by 2 years to come, The reduction in year from 3 to 2 for long term income calculation helps people in the bracket of5 to 10 lacs fora clear margin on future disinvestment.Secondly the increased expenditure on military and for infrastructure will yeild good results in terms of defence personnel upkeep and general growth in revenue of govt.The demonitisation has started yeilding results but for the bad weather on the anvil.I am hopefull of a better near to expectation budget next year.

With the major cryptocurrency exchanges having strengthened regulations for large purchase or trade for bitcoins, in the form of stringent KYC (Know Your Customer) verification for larger withdrawals and with exorbitant expenditure towards military sanctions, legal acquisition of Bitcoins is an arduous task for North Korea.

As for your question, my goal is to have enough cash flowing passive income from rental properties to supplement my military retirement in 8 years without reducing my families expenditures.